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enCNN's Costello Frets Over 'Militarized View of America' That 'Created Mess'http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/matthew-balan/2016/12/08/cnns-costello-frets-over-militarized-view-america-created-mess
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On Thursday&#39;s <em>CNN Newsroom</em>, Carol Costello boosted liberal criticism of President-Elect Donald Trump picking several retired generals to his Cabinet. She first asked former Obama Cabinet member Janet Napolitano, &quot;Democrats &mdash; they&#39;re worried that Mr. Trump has picked so many generals....Does that concern you?&quot; The anchor later hyped that &quot;some...say a militarized view of America got us into...the Iraq War. It created problems at Abu Ghraib. It created the mess that is now Guantanamo Bay. So, do they have a point?&quot;</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:10:41 +0000Matthew Balan166366 at http://www.newsbusters.orgNY Times Book Review Picks Team Obama to Grade Team Obama on Terrorismhttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/02/10/ny-times-book-review-picks-team-obama-grade-team-obama-terrorism
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">One might think the&nbsp;<em>New York Times Book Review</em>&nbsp;would never &ldquo;stoop&rdquo; to allowing a Bush cabinet secretary like Tom Ridge to review a book on the Bush record on terrorism. But on Sunday, they selected former Obama Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to review a new book titled&nbsp;<em>United States of Jihad&nbsp;</em>by CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen.&nbsp;</p>
<p style="font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">The beyond-weird headline &ndash; over courtroom drawings of Nidal Hasan, Faisal Shahzad, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab &ndash; was &ldquo;All-American Terrorists.&rdquo; Deep in the middle, J-Nap started sticking up Obama as a tough guy in fighting &quot;man-caused disasters,&quot; er,&nbsp;terrorism:&nbsp;</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:26:51 +0000Tim Graham104826 at http://www.newsbusters.orgMSNBC's Hayes: 'Bizarre and Perverse Mismatch' In Battling Terrorism Versus Gun Violencehttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2013/04/18/msnbcs-hayes-bizarre-and-perverse-mismatch-battling-terrorism
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On Wednesday's <em>All In</em> show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes devoting a segment to fretting over what he viewed as a "bizarre and perverse mismatch" at the country's willingness to act aggressively in response to deaths from terrorist acts, but the difficulty to get a response to the many gun deaths. He also described the 30,000 people who die from gun shots each year as "martyrs on the altar of the Second Amendment," as he complained of a double standard.</p>
<p> The MSNBC host teased the segment at about 8:11 p.m.:</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:29:59 +0000Brad Wilmouth59807 at http://www.newsbusters.orgNapolitano Statement on Air Travel Delays Directly Contradicted by Airport Officialshttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2013/03/04/napolitano-statement-air-travel-delays-directly-contradicted-airport
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According to the first paragraph of Alicia's Caldwell's report today <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BC_US_BUDGET_BATTLE_AIR_TRAVEL?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">at the Associated Press</a>, aka <a href="http://www.bizzyblog.com/2012/04/09/ap-the-administrations-press-and-propagandists/">the Adminstration's Press</a>, Homeland Security Secretary Janey Napolitano told attendees at a Politico breakfast this morning (Politico's coverage <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/janet-napolitano-sequester-hits-tsa-lines-88363.html">is here</a>) that, in Caldwell's words, "U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays as a result of automatic federal spending cuts." Additionally, again in Caldwell's words, "she expects a cascading effect during the week, with wait times expected to double in worst cases."</p>
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Well, either someone forgot to tell airport spokesperson and the travel industry to fall in line, or said officials are refusing, according to follow-up stories <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=5B7E0EEB-5082-472A-895A-2A2EC8A7E041">at the Politico</a> and <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9908416/Airports-contradict-Janet-Napolitanos-sequester-claim.html">the UK Telegraph</a>. Notably, the AP had no such follow-up story at its national site as of 10 p.m. ET tonight, but <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BUDGET_BATTLE_GLANCE?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">did have a story</a> by Pauline Jelinek ("HOW BUDGET CUTS COULD AFFECT YOU") published at the about the same time as the two follow-ups just noted dutifully echoing Napolitano's talking points. Excerpts from both follow-up stories are after the jump.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:37:51 +0000Tom Blumer58804 at http://www.newsbusters.orgNPR Uses Joplin's Tea Party Congressman to Gush Over Obama Disaster Relief Teamhttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2011/09/23/npr-uses-joplins-tea-party-congressman-gush-over-obama-disaster
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On Thursday, NPR's Morning Edition<a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/09/23/npr-prods-gop-mayor-endorse-obama-ideas-asks-if-mcconnells-being-helpful"> used a Republican mayor</a> to boost Obama's push for infrastructure spending. On Friday, the same show displayed a new Tea Party Republican House member representing tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri to <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=140713653">gush over the effectiveness</a> of the Obama disaster relief team, as if to say "No Katrinas here, America." Janet Napolitano told NPR Long would give them a "12" out of 10.</p>
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Liberals have this habit of thinking that disaster relief somehow rebuts "foes of Big Government," or that Tea Party members ran on the promise of abolishing disaster aid. NPR reporter Frank Morris pressed hard on the chastened-anti-statist angle:</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 03:05:45 +0000Tim Graham46926 at http://www.newsbusters.orgOpen Thread: Janet Napolitano Says Terrorist Profiling Is 'Not Using Good Logic'http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2011/06/09/open-thread-janet-napolitano-says-terrorist-profiling-not-using-good
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According to Janet Napolitano, concentrating terrorist screening efforts on young Muslim men is "not using good logic."</p>
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Her response came after a reporter in the audience asked, "Why wouldn't the Department focus more of its attention on the category of individuals that turned up most often as the suspect?"</p>
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Check out the video of Napolitano's response after the break, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.</p>
<p></p></div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:39:22 +0000NB Staff44588 at http://www.newsbusters.orgNo, We're Not Exaggerating U.S. Border Violencehttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/chuck-norris/2011/03/22/no-were-not-exaggerating-us-border-violence
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After a decade of playing one on television, I, along with my brother Aaron, was blessed a few months ago to become a real Texas Ranger in the presence of Gov. Rick Perry, fellow Texas Rangers and many others.</p>
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Perry mentioned at that induction: "As the drug cartels have turned up the heat on the other side of that border over the past few years, we have invested significant state resources to secure our border, looking to local police departments, county sheriffs, game wardens and even Texas Military Forces. However, when it was time to take the fight to the bad guys, there was only one choice to lead our efforts, so we formed our Ranger recon teams. It is reassuring to know that our Rangers are on the job, especially in light of ongoing reports of deteriorating conditions, with kidnappings, assassinations and terroristic acts just miles from Texas communities."</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:20:05 +0000Chuck Norris42846 at http://www.newsbusters.orgAndrea Mitchell Plays Press-Sec-For-A-Day For Napolitano, Bidenhttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2010/12/21/andrea-mitchell-plays-press-sec-day-napolitano-biden
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Amidst all the talk of Robert Gibbs' imminent departure as White House press secretary, could Andrea Mitchell be gunning for the gig? NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent certainly gave a strong audition on today's Morning Joe, doing her best to paper over the latest stumbles by two gaffe-prone Obamaoids.</p>
<p> Mitchell first tried to paint an innocent gloss on Napolitano's curious boast that her homeland security minions are working "364 days a year" to keep the nation safe. Later, Mitchell spun with the best to explain away Biden's claim--at odds with official US policy--that the US will be "totally out" of Afghanistan by 2014, "come hell or high water."</p>
<p> Mitchell gave her game away with her facial expression at the very end of the video clip. After Joe Scarborough gives her a skeptical "come on" for her shilling, Andrea breaks into a wry smile. Cut me some slack, Scarborough, Andrea seems to be signaling. A gal's has got to give her best MSM try for the home team!</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:36:06 +0000Mark Finkelstein40951 at http://www.newsbusters.orgEleanor Clift Equates Airport Scanners to CAT Scans: 'What Are We Concealing Here?' http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/noel-sheppard/2010/11/21/eleanor-clift-equates-airport-scanners-cat-scans-what-are-we
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Newsweek's Eleanor Clift doesn't understand why Americans are uncomfortable with the new body scanners being used at some of the nation's airports.</p>
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Chatting about the subject on PBS's "McLaughlin Group," Clift sarcastically said, "Maybe we ought to worry about C-T x-rays and so forth - you never can tell when somebody might put that out" (video follows with transcript and commentary):</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:31:53 +0000Noel Sheppard40366 at http://www.newsbusters.orgNapolitano: We're Always 'Leaning Forward'http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2010/10/30/napolitano-were-always-leaning-forward
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Looks like the MSNBC-Obama merger is complete . . .</p>
<p> Janet Napolitano did double-duty on Good Morning America today, describing administration anti-terrorism efforts while serving as an MSNBC shill by parroting the liberal network's new <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39310817/msnbc-leanforward/ns/msnbc_tv-lean_forward">marketing catchphrase</a>, Lean Forward.</p>
<p> To complete the daisy chain, Napolitano was interviewed by ABC's Bianna Golodryga, wife of . . . former Obama budget director Peter Orzag. View video after the jump.</p>
<p> The topic was the foiled plot to send explosives to synagogues in Chicago.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:57:08 +0000Mark Finkelstein39878 at http://www.newsbusters.orgObama/Napolitano Handling of Immigration Leaves Much to Be Desiredhttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/cal-thomas/2010/10/12/obamanapolitano-handling-immigration-leaves-much-be-desired
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I was preparing to applaud the Obama administration and specifically Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for announcing the deportation of a record number of criminal aliens last year. According to the Washington Times, "the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 392,862 aliens in fiscal year 2010, slightly less than a 1 percent increase over 2009 but short of the agency's goal to remove 400,000 this year."</p>
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What curbed my enthusiasm was news that removal of other illegal immigrants -- those not convicted of crimes, though it could be justifiably argued that their status as illegal immigrants is, by definition, the breaking of American law -- fell to the lowest number since 2007.</p>
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Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), said that while it is nice that Secretary Napolitano believes removing people in the country illegally is an important function for the Department of Homeland Security, "policy directives from the highest levels of DHS clearly demonstrate that the administration is refusing to enforce laws against noncriminal aliens."</p>
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That bad cop/good cop approach is designed to pacify those on the political right while the administration and some Democrats in Congress simultaneously lay the groundwork for legalizing those who broke our laws to get here and remain in the country illegally.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:36:38 +0000Cal Thomas39472 at http://www.newsbusters.orgOpen Thread: Napolitano Says Haley Barbour is Governor of Alabama http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2010/07/17/open-thread-napolitano-says-haley-barbour-governor-alabama
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>He's only one of the most powerful Republican governors in the nation, yet Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano thinks he presides over Alabama:</p>
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<p>That would be Mississippi, ma'am. Honestly, is this the most inept administration you've ever seen? (h/t <a href="http://fmtalk1065.com/index.php/schedule/wayne_and_sean/" target="_blank">Sean &amp; Wayne, 106.5 WAVH</a> in Mobile, Ala. via <a href="http://www.threefingersofpolitics.com/?p=1096">Threefingersofpolitics.com</a>)</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:18:47 +0000NB Staff37588 at http://www.newsbusters.orgFNC's Pinkerton Cites MRC on Holder & Napolitano Not Reading Arizona Immigration Lawhttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2010/05/26/fncs-pinkerton-cites-mrc-holder-napolitano-not-reading-arizona
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On Saturday’s Fox News Watch, as the panel discussed revelations that Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted to not having read the Arizona immigration law even as they criticized it publicly, FNC contributor Jim Pinkerton cited the Media Research Center, parent organization of NewsBusters, and passed on findings contained in the <a href="/blogs/brent-bozell/2010/05/18/bozell-column-eric-holder-cant-read">May 18 "Bozell Column,"</a> as he informed the panel that ABC, CBS and NBC had all ignored these embarrassing admissions by Obama administration cabinet members. Pinkerton:</p>
<blockquote><p>And it was interesting, as Brent Bozell at the Media Research Center pointed out, not any of the big networks – ABC, CBS, or NBC – reported that Holder and Napolitano hadn't read it. And the major newspapers, the Post and Times, also didn't report it. By comparison, we could imagine what would have happened if a Democratic Congressman asked Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General under President Bush, if he hadn't read something. There would have been a typhoon of, "What a moron." And yet, stone silence from the mainstream media.</p>
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<p>Panel member Rich Lowry of the National Review may also have picked up on a <a href="/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/05/04/fncs-hume-chides-media-misinformation-az-immigration-law">NewsBusters item</a> when he recounted FNC veteran Brit Hume’s criticism of the inaccurate media coverage of the Arizona immigration law, and the mistake he admitted to making in initially believing the media misinformation. Lowry:</p>
<blockquote></blockquote></div></div></div>Wed, 26 May 2010 12:11:22 +0000Brad Wilmouth36449 at http://www.newsbusters.orgSaturday Sing-a-Long With Arizona: Read the Immigration Billhttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/noel-sheppard/2010/05/22/saturday-sing-long-arizona-read-immigration-bill
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<p>See if you can name them as you sing a long:</p>
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</div></div></div>Sun, 23 May 2010 01:56:43 +0000Noel Sheppard36385 at http://www.newsbusters.orgJack Cafferty Slams Obama, Mexico's President For Arizona Law 'Whining'http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/matthew-balan/2010/05/20/jack-cafferty-slams-obama-mexicos-president-arizona-law-whining
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img src="//cdn.mrc.org/Newsbusters/static/2010/05/2010-05-20-CNN-TSR-Cafferty.jpg" alt="Jack Cafferty, CNN Commentator | NewsBusters.org" vspace="3" width="240" align="right" height="180" hspace="3" />On Thursday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty blasted President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon for their criticism of Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law, stating that the two were "whining" about the law. Cafferty singled out Calderon for having "a lot of nerve...complaining" about the Arizona law and labeled Congress's standing ovation for the Mexican leader "disgusting."</p>
<p>The commentator devoted his Cafferty File segment 13 minutes into the 5 pm Eastern hour to slamming the two leaders' criticism of the Grand Canyon's State's newly-passed legislation. Cafferty wasted little time and targeted Calderon first for his criticism of the law on American soil: "Mexican President Felipe Calderon has a lot of nerve coming into this country and complaining about Arizona's immigration law, when all the state wants to do is protect itself against a flood of illegal immigrants from Calderon's country." He continued that "Calderon and President Obama are both whining about the Arizona law. Calderon, who also took the message to a joint meeting of Congress, is calling Arizona's law discriminatory."</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 20 May 2010 22:42:57 +0000Matthew Balan36346 at http://www.newsbusters.org